Longmont Birds over the past week

[Luke Pheneger]

I've birded the SW longmont area pretty heavily over the past week, the highlights include:

11/18

Golden ponds

Snow Goose-2 (flyovers)

Townsends Solitare-3 ( still continue as of 11/21 )

Dark Eyed Junco-5 subspecies

Swamp Sparrow 

Horned Lark-8 (in the farm fields)

Lagerman Reservoir

Greater White Fronted Goose ( my first ever for Lagerman!! )

11/19

Golden Ponds

Snow Goose-8

Greater white fronted goose-2

Snow/Ross's Goose-3

Swamp Sparrow (continuing)

Red Crossbill-2 

A lot of geese are starting to build up on the agricultural fields, hosting all geese except Brant and Ross's Goose but I sure hope those show up soon.

11/20

Lagerman Reservoir

Bonapartes Gull-1 (first winter)

Herring Gull-6

Thayers Gull-1 (first year)

A very large flock of American Wigeons is still present

11/21

My Yard

Dark Eyed Jucos- 5 subspecies including my yards first ever White Winged Junco!!!

Golden ponds

Greater White Fronted Goose-1

Northern Shrike

Bushtit 6 ( seemed to have come out of nowhere, moving through the cottenwoods and dissapearing in a second )

11/22

Lagerman Reservoir

Bonapartes Gull-4

Herring Gull-3

Herring/Thayers Gulls-2 (adults that were hard to tell from a distance)

Northern Shrike-1

Virginia Rail-2

Horned Lark-3 (fairly common lately)

Over the past week or so, the raptors at Lagerman have included 

Ferruginous Hawks, Red Tailed Hawks, Merlin, Kestrals, Northern Harrier, Cooper's hawk, Bald Eagles, and I had one Rough Legged Hawk earlier on in the season, but haven't seen it in a while. It's become a mini raptor highway.

11/21

I also walked along the foothills parkway path that runs next to the Boulder creek. And in front of the foothills parkway underpass I flushed 2 finches from the thistle fields that seemed like excellent canadites for Common Redpolls, too bad my phone was dead and I couldn't record the calls

:(. But the description can be seen in the list below, if anyone is interested.

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40651507

Good Birding

Luke Pheneger

Longmont

[Susan Wise]

And how many miles did you put on your bike ?!!
Brilliant 'backyard' birding.
Happy Thanksgiving !